Better No-Limit Hold’em

Vanessa Rousso took the honours at the PokerStars EPT High Rollers Championship, but not before a deal had been struck when the table was three handed, as Rousso, Tony G and Randy Dorfman traded the chiplead between them. The deal gave the three 420,000 Euros each and left 150,000 Euros for the eventual winner.
Tony G [...]

Dutchman Pieter de Korver made a stunning comeback  to take the title in the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Grand Final in Monte Carlo. At one stage de Korver had just three big blinds in his stack, but a handful of timely double ups saw him back in contention. Dag Martin Mikkelsen went into the final table [...]

It was third time lucky for Justin Bonomoas he won the World Series of Poker Circuit Championship at Las Vegas. Having reached the final table in the last two years, finishing fourth and fifth respectively, this time Bonomo won his first major title, collecting the $227,692 and a seat in the 2009 WSOP Main Event.

Tom”durrrr” Dwan’ met his first challenger in Patrik Antonius, who stepped up to the plate on Wednesday to play the first session of the head to head challenge. The pair played 1,541 hands of the required 50,000, on four tables on Full Tilt poker. The game was pot-limit Omaha. The rules are that they must [...]

This years main event attracted a 680 strong field packed with the worlds top tournament players and internet qualifiers, all vying for the AUD $2 million top prize. It was Stewart Scott, who took the win and became the first Australian to win the Main Event.
Scott went into the final day as chip leader by [...]

The Aussie Million event No 7 was a $1,650 no-limit hold’em tournament, but with the added innovation of having a “bounty” at each table, and whoever eliminated the bounty player would get a $1,000 bounty prize. The unique format drew 449 entrants, but with only a 20 second time limit in which to act on [...]

Event number 6 was a $1,150 No-Limit Hold’em tournament with rebuys. The 126 competitors took advantage of the rebuy factor, with 457 rebuys in the early levels building a massive prize pool. By the end of Day 1, the field was whittled down to a final 9, with Jonathon Karamilikis as the overnight chip leader.
It [...]

Tom Dwan has issued a $1.5 million challenge in a series of online heads-up matches. After failing to get any heads-up action online, Dwan came up with the challenge where he will put up $1.5 million against a challenger’s $500,000. Playing four tables at a time with stakes at a minimum of $200/$400. They will [...]

The $1,100 H.O.R.S.E. tournament was run over two days, with a full compliment of 96 players spread over twelve tables. The five different games, Hold’em, Omaha hi-lo, Razz, Seven card stud, and Stud hi-lo, were rotated every eight hands.
It was Jarred Solomon who took the honours at the end of day two. Having started the [...]

One hundred and forty players contested Event number four, which was a $1,100 limit hold’em tournament. Top pro entrants included Mel Judah, who hours earlier had taken the Event number three crown, Grant Levy, Sam Khouiss and Annette Obrestad, who was entering her first live limit tournament.
It was Zach Gruneberg who took the title. After [...]

Mel Judah won Event number three, a $1,100 limit Omaha hi-lo tournament. A hundred and two competitors battled it out over a marathon seventeen hours. Among the top class field were last years Aussie Millions Main Event winner Alexander Kostristyn, Tony G and 2008 WSOP runner up Ivan Demidov, though all three were eliminated long [...]

Event number 2 in this years Aussie Millions, was the $1,050 Poker Pro No-Limit Hold’em tournament. The eventual winner was Aussie Mitchell Carle, picking up $25,000 for first prize, and the second Aussie Millions Gold Ring.
This tourney being a bit different to the norm in that all of the eighty-three competitors were seated at ten [...]

The first event of the 2009 Aussie Millions, the $1,100 No Limit Hold’em, was won by the German Christian Heich, who went onto the ten man final table with the third highest chip stack behind Steve Bouya and David Griffiths.
As well as the AU$150,000 first place prize money, the winner will also receive the [...]

It was third time lucky for Marty Smyth as he won the 2008 Ladbrokes Poker Million final, after playing at the final tables of the two previous Poker Million tournaments.Smyth came in sixth in his first final, managed to come runner up last year, but finally got his hands on the $1,000,000 prize after a [...]

At the Sydney Star City Casino the final of the pokerstars.com Asia Pacific Poker Tour got under way. After a week of high-class poker, the final table included several poker pros, a retired engineer, a student and a racehorse owner from Canada. The eventual winner was local guy Martin Rowe, a 34 year old Star [...]